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A Good Time for Gross National Happiness
Bakshi, Rajni - 2004
This essay will examine just some signs of change in economic and social thought in the North-South relations. It does not attempt to offer a comprehensive overview of the creative possibilities for positive change that are now visible on the world stage. The basic premise of this exploration is...
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Gross National Happiness: Towards a New Paradigm in Economics
Tideman, Sander G. - 2004
The notion of Gross National Happiness (GNH) presents a radical paradigm shift in development economics and social theory. GNH can be regarded as the Buddhist equivalent to Gross National Product (GNP), which is the conventional indicator for a nation’s economic performance. But GNH can also be...
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Towards an Economics of Happiness
Norberg-Hodge, Helena; Gorelick, Steven - 2004
mainly on the disastrous impacts of the global economy on food and agriculture around the world. Adequate, wholesome food is …
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Markteintritt und Preiswettbewerb am österreichischen Arzneimittelmarkt am Beispiel der ACE-Hemmer von 2002 bis 2006
Stadler, Isabel - 2009
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit ist, Auswirkungen von Generika- Markteintritten am österreichischen ACE-Hemmer Markt mithilfe aktueller Daten zu untersuchen und zu interpretieren. Nachdem ein Überblick über die gesetzliche Lage des österreichischen Gesundheitssystems gegeben wird,...
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Mikro-Zertifikate
Müller, Olaf L. - 2009
Wie müsste eine faire Lösung des Klimaproblems aussehen? Wie sollten wir Pflichten und finanzielle Lasten der nötigen CO2-Reduktionen verteilen, wenn es dabei gerecht zugehen soll und keiner übervorteilt werden darf? In meiner Antwort auf diese ethischen Fragen stütze ich mich auf einen...
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Risk preference and employment contract type
Farrell, Lisa; Brown, Sarah; Harris, Mark N.; Sessions, … - 2006
We explore the possibility that a systematic relationship exists between employment within a particular type of contract and risk preference. We exploit a set of proxies for risk preference, whereby some of the proxies capture risk loving behaviour (expenditure on gambling, smoking and alcohol)...
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Competition and the growth of non-standard employment : the case of the Australian construction industry
Toner, Phillip; Coates, Nick - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2006
growth of nonstandard employment greater than that for the economy as a whole but is neither subject to direct import …
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Renaissance of entrepreneurship? : some remarks and empirical evidence for Germany
Bögehold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - 2007
The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working ontheir own having no or just a few employees and where one can find also people working with lowreturns and having firms without stability or prosperous dynamics. However, even the area...
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Measures of environmental and sustainable socioeconomic welfare and the political economy of capitalism - theoretical reconstruction, technical specification, and critical analysis...
Brennan, Andrew John - 2009
perspective of political economy. One of the prime motivations for such an inquiry is that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) provides …) can offer vital insights where there may be conflict between the various spheres of economy, society and ecology. The …-historical institutional analysis. Critically absent from every SEWI analysis is a systematic understanding of the political economy and system …
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Improving Unsustainable Western Economic Systems
Dixon, Frank - 2004
To help guide development of the Gross National Happiness (GNH), this paper analyzes Western economic systems. Drivers of environmental and social problems will be discussed with the goal of helping Bhutan avoid these pitfalls. The paper then suggests a strategy for developing the GNH as well as...
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